Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...administration of ERP would fall somewhere between George Marshall's insistence on out-&-out State Department control and opponents' demands for a bipartisan corporation. The committee compromise followed the lines of the Atomic Energy Commission, with a $20,000-a-year administrator of Cabinet rank, backed up by a bipartisan advisory board of twelve men chosen from outside the government. The administrator would have complete authority to make grants and loans (through the Export-Import Bank), would be responsible to the State Department only for mutual exchange of information...
...head of Britain's mission to the Paris conference last summer, Sir Oliver has a perfect understanding of the Marshall Plan from the European perspective. As Europe's representative in Washington for further talks last fall, he is equally equipped to interpret the U.S. point of view...
What many a housewife only vaguely understood was that unless Schuman, by some method, checked soaring prices, his government, and perhaps the Fourth Republic, would fall. Already the Communist-controlled Federation of Labor (which claimed that the cost of living had risen 21.5% since Schuman granted general wage increases last Dec. 1) was demanding a new 20% general wage increase. The demand-which, if granted, would simply push prices still higher-gave Communists a popular rallying cry in a new onslaught against Schuman's government. Schuman last week grimly accepted the challenge: "I am ready for my greatest battle...
...promised a chance to observe a cavalry patrol that would go out that night against nearby Communist Andartes (guerrillas). Inside headquarters, a beribboned Greek colonel offered him a glass of cognac. A night patrol? Surely the American was joking. The colonel explained: "We never move cavalry at night. Horses fall down; you might run into ambushes...
...back door of the Prime Minister's residence. To waiting photographers he explained with a shy, tired smile: "The back is better because we are going out, you know." The pictures over, Katayama solemnly wrapped his state papers in a purple scarf and bustled off to report the fall of his cabinet to the Emperor (he had already told General MacArthur...